Downtown facts for kids

Downtown (called a city centre in British English) is a word used in North America which refers to the main part of a city. It is usually the central business district where most commercial and office areas are; many of them being in skyscrapers. Tourism also concentrates there.

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Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is the largest residential and central business district in the United States.
Downtown Manhattan in 1893; looking up Broadway from Barclay Street
Chicago's Rand McNally Building of 1889, the world's first all-steel-framed building, no longer extant
Lower Manhattan, also known as the Financial District, New York City's original downtown and fourth-most populous downtown in the United States
Center City, Philadelphia, the second-most populous downtown in the United States
Downtown Chicago(the Loop), the fifth-most populous downtown in the U.S.
Downtown Los Angeles, the third-most populous downtown in the United States
Downtown Miami
Downtown San Francisco
Financial District, Boston
Downtown Houston
Downtown North Adams, Massachusetts, population 13,000. This scale and style is typical of many small cities in the United States and Canada.
Downtown Providence, Rhode Island, a typical mid-sized American city
Downtown Toronto, Ontario
Downtown Montreal, Quebec
Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia
Downtown Calgary, Alberta

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